The latest news from Scot Finnie:

 

"I have learned directly from Comodo executives that the Basic Firewall installation option of Comodo 3 does not offer any outbound leak protection whatsoever. They may add that protection in a future version of Comodo 3.x. The Basic Firewall option turns off Comodo 3’s Defense+ HIPS module, which provides the leak protection for Comodo 3.

 

The previous generation of the Comodo 2.4 provided anti-leak protection without the HIPS."
Full read: http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2008/01/20/do-not-rely-on-comodo-3s-basic-firewall/

 

Now that's a big OOPS on Comodo's part, not making that clear from the beginning.

 

Bottom line: if you use CFP 3 without the Advanced+ option, you might as well just use Windows FW.